Vanessa Paloma & the Spirit of Moroccan Jews

Vanessa Paloma sings, writes, and lives for the music of her Sephardic forebears who left Morocco for the New World. Now she’s back in Morocco, one of the preeminent scholars – and performers – of Morocco’s Jewish musical heritage.


Legation Courtyard Cookoff: Moroccan Street Food

Why just talk about Morocco’s Street Food, Abdelkrim Raddadi’s new book, when you can eat some caliente too, strait off the burner?


Kidnap Scrapbook: Letters on the Perdicaris Affair

A rare book containing the letters written to the wife of kidnap victim Ion Perdicaris has been put up for sale.


Zohra, As She Was: Photos From the Fifties

James McBey’s “Zohra” has been called the Moroccan Mona Lisa, but in the 1950s, she was a young teen posing in Tangier, and friends with the children of Marguerite McBey’s American family.


Horsemen of an Apocalypse: les Chevaux de Dieu

The human components of suicide bombings, told with great realism and poetry by Moroccan film maker Nabil Ayouch.


Free at Last

We got an early start in marking Martin Luther King day this year.  There was great interest in our 2011 screening of Freedom Riders, so we decided that an encore was due for those who missed Stanley Nelson's award-winning documentary. Our monthly "Movie Night" had an added come-on: distribution of the excellent State Department publication … Read more Free at Last


Tahar Ben Jelloun at the Legation

Morocco’s best-known writer Tahar Ben Jelloun presents his latest novel at the Tangier American Legation.


Lords & Loafers at the Hotel Continental

Tangier’s best-preserved “grand hotel” has been home to more than a century’s worth of adventurers.


Lord Bute’s Palace: Historic Minzah Hotel

The Minzah Hotel is the subject of a social history, with plenty of period gossip from Tangier’s heyday.


Bowles & Kerouac and the Legation

Literary festival “Correspondances de Tanger” features Bernard Comment’s evocation of American beat writer Jack Kerouac.